5,590 stories by "Mark Shenton"
"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to
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Emma Rice, currently joint artistic director of Kneehigh for whom her productions included Brief Encounter that transferred to Broadway's Studio 54 and Tristan & Yseult (currentl…
Derek Jacobi is to join the previously announced Lily James and Richard Madden in the forthcoming production of Romeo and Juliet that Kenneth Branagh will direct for his own new Kenneth Bran…
Amelia Lily, a singer who finished third on the British "X Factor" TV competition in 2011, is to star as Whatshername in a new London production of American Idiot, the musical that…
Critics are, first and foremost, a consumer guide to the theatre " I’ve sometimes thought we see the shows so you don’t
Impossible, a new magic show featuring an international line-up of magicians and tricksters, is to play at the West End's Noël Coward Theatre for a five week season this sum…
This is the last week that I’ll be offering a round-up of new openings across all sectors " starting next week, I’ll
When The Tony Awards are presented in Broadway’s biggest annual back-patting event, not everyone will be a winner. And the nominations, announced
1984, a stage version of George Orwell's book created by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan, is to return to the West End's Playhouse Theatre, where it previously played in 2014 after …
In commercial theatre the top dog is the producer " the man or woman who controls the purse strings as well as
Follies in Concert is being given two performances only April 28 at London's Royal Albert Hall, with a cast that includes Ruthie Henshall as Sally Durant Plumer, Christine Baranski as Ph…
The Tony nominations will be announced on April 28, but I’m declaring my favourite original score of the 2014/15 season on Broadway
Damian Lewis, John Goodman and Tom Sturridge star in the new West End revival of David Mamet's 1975 play American Buffalo, which opens officially April 27 (following previews that began …
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The West End transfer of Jennifer Haley's The Nether, which received its U.K. premiere at London's Royal Court in Jeremy Herrin's co-production with Headlong Theatre last sum…
Cats ends its current season at the London Palladium April 25, but as previously announced, it will return there for a further ten week season beginning Oct. 23, so it is only really a hiatu…
Dawn French is to bring her latest solo show, 30 Million Minutes, to the West End's Vaudeville Theatre, beginning performances Nov. 11 prior to an official opening Nov. 12 for a limited …
A new stage production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is set to launch at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds, beginning performances Dec. 2, prior to an official opening Dec. 10, for a nine&#…
Cats, which ends its current sell-out run at the London Palladium April 25, will return there for a further 10-week season, beginning performances Oct. 23 for a run through Jan. 2.
Killian Donnelly and Matt Henry are to star in the West End premiere of Broadway's Tony award winning Kinky Boots, beginning performances Aug. 21 prior to an official opening Sept. 15, a…
Nicole Kidman is to return to the London stage for the first time since 1998 in the UK premiere of Anna Ziegler's Photograph 51. It will begin performances Sept. 5 prior to an official o…
This month alone, up to and including April 23, there were 14 Broadway openings across a 23-day span. That’s because April 23
The West End premiere run of a revised version of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, David Yazbek and Jeffrey Lane's 2010 Broadway musical version of the 1988 film of the same na…
The West End premiere run of a revised version of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, David Yazbek and Jeffrey Lane's 2010 Broadway musical version of the 1988 film of the same na…
